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Title Page, Copyright

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

While all errors of fact and judgment are exclusively my own, I would like to offer my
most sincere thanks to all those who helped me prepare Not in Our Name.
When I began this project as an undergraduate in 2003, Professor James Engell at
Harvard University kindly offered thoughtful and much-needed criticism of my outlines
and drafts. In 2005...

EDITOR'S NOTE

Most of the speeches in this book are excerpted rather than given in in full; omissions
are indicated by ellipses. Citations to available full-text versions of each speech are given
in appendix A.
The text used here is usually, but not always, the first published version, as noted in
appendix A; capitalization...

Introduction

Why anthologize American antiwar speeches? Above all, the speeches contained in this
anthology are important historical artifacts. They contribute to a unique understanding
of the rhetorical history of America’s wars and foreign policies. To be sure, much has
been written on the rhetoric of war1 and on antiwar movements,2 but a survey of the
literature reveals...

1 Mexican-American War (1846–1848)

Before the Mexican-American War broke out in 1846, the United States encompassed
approximately two million square miles, from Maine in the north to Florida in the south,
and west far past the Mississippi River. At the end of the war in 1848, the size of the
country had increased...

2 Civil War (1861–1865)

The single most important postrevolutionary event in American history, the Civil War
ended the institution of slavery in the United States. The war began shortly after
Abraham Lincoln was elected president in 1860, and lasted four years. Though Lincoln
swept the Northern...

The Spanish-American War and the Philippine Insurrection, two successive turn-of-thecentury
conflicts, are among the smallest wars covered in this anthology in terms of
American fatalities. Nevertheless, they occupy an important place in American history.
More than ever before, the United States claimed to be fighting on behalf of oppressed
people outside its...

4 World War I (1914–1918)

The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne,
in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914, triggered a series of events culminating in the First World
War. Austria declared war on Serbia in late July. Germany declared war against Russia
and France in early August. At the same time, Britain declared war on Germany. Later
that August, President...

5 World War II (1939–1945)

Two decades after the Treaty of Versailles, the world was once again ensnared in total
war. At its height, World War II pitted the Allied powers, including the United States,
Great Britain, France, and the Soviet Union against the Axis powers of Germany, Japan,
and Italy. Battles were fought in Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, East Asia, and
throughout...

6 Korean War (1950–1953)

Two major world powers emerged from the Second World War: the United States and
the Soviet Union. The contrasting political ideologies represented by these two regimes,
democracy on the one hand and Communism on the other, would play out on the
world’s stage over the next forty-five years. Indeed, it was the threat of Communism that
drove U.S. postwar foreign...

7 Vietnam War (1964–1973)

By the time Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution in 1964,1 Vietnam had
already endured two decades of war. After World War II, the Vietnamese nationalist Ho
Chi Minh took the opportunity to declare independence from a weakened France.
France, however, refused to capitulate to Ho Chi Minh’s demands, and opted instead to
fight for the colony...

8 War on Terror (2003–Present)

On September 11, 2001, nineteen terrorists from the militant al-Qaeda network
hijacked four planes in midflight. The terrorists did not intend to take hostages.
Instead, they altered the planes’ flight paths and, transforming the civilian aircrafts
into massive missiles, aimed them at key symbols of American military and economic
strength. One plane, heading...

Epilogue: The Globalization of Dissent

Worldwide popular opposition to the U.S. invasion of Iraq was considerable. As mentioned
above, in a Gallup International Poll in January 2003 approximately half of all
global interviewees said they were not in favor of military action against Iraq under any
circumstances, and even if the war were first approved by the United Nations, only about
one-third of those...

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